Shoe welt



April 1, 1930.

C. H. MERROW SHOE WELT Filed `Jujly 1, 1929' UNrrs srarss e CHARLES H. MERROW, OF BROCK'ION, MASSACHUSETTS SHOE WELT Application led July 1, 1929. Serial No. 375,119.

This invention relates to shoe welts and the welt to the upper U and inner sole I may more particularly to welts for'light dress be disposed. This groove is formed .immedi- Shoes ately adjacent the inner edge of the invisible An important object of the invention .is extension ll which forms a shoulder 16 con- 5 the production of a slice welt which while fronting the under faceof the visible exteii- 55 providing suliicient substance for 'withstandsion lO. A welt of this character may be very ing the strain of the attaching stitches procheaply produced and will enable the provides an extension edge or iron portion duction of shoes with muon lighter edges than j which is thin, and which accordingly does is possible with the welts new employed.

lo not add materially to the-thickness of the l am aware that it has heretofore been 60 sole. proposed to employ a welt that is wedge- A further and more specific obj ect of the shaped (termed wedge welt) wherein the subinvention is the production of a singlepiece stan-Le variation is obtained by removing a dual substance welt wherein the iron or wedgeshaped piece of the material, starting 15 visible extension portion of the welt is in the at nothing' at the groove and cutting through 6U form of a relatively thin edge of the comto the required thickness at the outside edge, pleted welt and is of uniform thickness but such welts have proved impractical and throughout its width so that variation in the the principle condemned for the reason of extent to which the Welt is trimmed on edge the varying thickness obtained on the edge ex- 20 entensionswill not result in a variation of the tension of the shoe. 70

resultant iron of the sole of a completed My construction overcomes this objection shoe. and allows a varying width on extension These and other objects I attain by the While retaining the uniformity of finished construction shown in the accompanying edge, or iron, that is so necessary to a findrawings wherein I have illust-rated the welt ished shoe. j constructed in accordance with my invention As the construction employed is capable of and wherein: a certain range of modification, without in Fig. l is a perspective sectional. view any manner departing from the spirit of in through a portion of a shoe showing the 'Welt invention, l do not limit myself to the snecilic 0 in position, and structure herein illustrated except as hereino Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the welt. after claimed.

Referring now more particularly to the lclaim: drawings, the welt comprises a strip of ina- A shoe welt comprising a unitary strip of terial having an outer visible or iron exteiimaterial having When applied to the shoe an V sion l0 of a uniform predetermined thickness outer visible extension and an inner invisible and a relatively thicker inner upper-attachextension of different thicknesses, the outer ing or invisible extension indicated at 11 extension being of uniform thickness which is preferably likewise of a uniform throughout its width and being the thinner, thickness with the exception of a slight beveleach of said extensions being free from lam- 43 ling of a corner of the free edge thereof as inae, one face of the strip being plane, the indicated at l2 to facilitate conformation of opposite face of the strip at the invisible eX- the welt to the sole in the completed shoe. tension and adjacent the junction of the eX- The increase in thickness is preferably at tensions having a stitch-receiving groove.

the grooved side of the completed welt strip CHARLES H.

so that the welt may be produced from leather J having a finished face 13 and will not require any subsequent finishing. The under face of the thickened invisible extension is provided with a stitch-receiving groove 14 in which the stitches l5 employed in connecting 

